خاقانی
پوچھ اس سے یہ خاک داں ہے کیا چیزہنگامہ این و آں ہے کیا چیز
English translation
Ask him what does this world imply, where does the cause or tumults lie?
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
خاک داں: مراد ہے یہ دنیا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 6 in “خاقانی” (Khaqani) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۶